The Happy Couple
Naoise Dolan
An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends who may draw them apart Meet Celine and Luke--for all intents and purposes the happy couple. Luke (a serial cheater) and Celine (more interested in piano than in domestic life) plan to marry in a year. Archie (the best man) should be moving on from his love for Luke and up the corporate ladder, but he finds himself utterly stuck. Phoebe (the bridesmaid and Celine’s sister) just wants to get to the bottom of Luke’s frequent unexplained disappearances. And Vivian (a wedding guest), as the only one with any emotional distance, observes her friends like ants in a colony. As the wedding approaches and these five lives intersect, each will find themselves looking for a path to their happily ever after--but does it lie at the end of an aisle?
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0I found this book to have a slightly overcomplicated "clever on purpose" writing style that started to grate on me half way through. All the characters were highly unlikeable which made it hard to connect with the storyline as I basically just didn't care about their ultimate wellbeing. I didn't hate this novel but neither did I love it.
0*3.5* This was an enjoyable, quick read to kick off the summer. I enjoyed the rotating perspectives, which peeled back the layers of each character and the story like an onion and allowed me to see the same events/information from a variety of vantage points.
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